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Steve Chapman and George Will are more optimistic than are Nick Gillespie and Sheldon Richman about the SCOTUS’s Obamacare ruling. Despite a private e-mail sent to me by the great and wise Henry Manne – an e-mail that, as Chapman and Will do in their columns, finds in the ruling increased hope for severing some of the overgrown tentacles of unconstitutional government – my instincts powerfully suggest to me that Nick’s and Sheldon’s pessimism is the more realistic reaction.

Also in today’s Wall Street Journal, Doug Irwin warns of the menace of protectionism monopoly privileges for the few, paid for by the many, and supported not only by the relatively few privileged monopolists but also by the economically clueless and excessively clever.

My colleague over in the GMU School of Law Todd Zywicki discussed, on the Bob Zadek Show, repealing the 17th amendment. Here’s the podcast.